1Faculty of Nursing, Andalas University Padang Sumatera Barat Indonesia
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Ns. Meri Neherta, M. Biomed Faculty Of Nursing, Andalas University Email: merineherta@nrs.unand.ac.id
Online published on 21 February, 2019.
Mother is the closest person for her children, especially for children with mental retardation. Thus, the mother has a very important role in providing knowledge and education to prevent the occurrence of sexual abuse against children.
The purpose of this study is to improve mother's knowledge and attitudes in an effort to reduce the risk of sexual abuse on children with mental retardation.
The study method was a quasi-experimental with One-Group Pre-Test-Post-Test approach and a total sample of 45 mothers with mentally retarded children. This study was conducted over eight months, from May 2016 to January 2017. Data analysis used Paired Sample T-test.
The study's result showed that there were increased knowledge and attitudes of the mother after given health education about primary prevention of child sexual abuse (p=0, 000) in Payakumbuh City of West Sumatera, Indonesia, the Year 2016.
It is expected that there some cooperation of related parties to regularly conduct health education on mothers who have a child with mental retardation, at least once in every semester.
Mother, children, mental retardation, sexual abuse, primary prevention
